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TIPPERARY HISTORICAL JOURNAL 1988 [Out-Of-Print]

George Plant & The Rule Of Law: The Devereux Affair (1940-42)
Michael Moroney
Lena Rice of New Inn
Eileen Bell
Lough Nahinch Crannog
M. P. Cahalan/A. M. G. Hyland
Life in Fethard in the 1700s
Michael O’Donnell
Mícháel O’ Dubhchonna: A Shaol Poiblí Roimh 1848
Mícheál Mac Cárthaigh
Some Preliminary Notes on the Excavation of Dolla Church, Killboy
Etienne Rynne
Land and Violence in Tipperary in the 1800s
Denis G. Marnane
Tipperary and the Evicted Tenants: The John Dillon Papers
Stuart O Seanóir
The Silvermines: Sporadic Working 1289-1874
Des Cowman
A Mid-Seventeenth Century House at Drumlummin, Tubrid
Rose M. Cleary
Pierce McCan M.P.; Part I
Deaglán O Bric
Sir William Butler on the Canadian Prairies
Eddie Dalton
An Trian Meánach
Pádraig O Cearbhaill
Heritage Centres
G. Cunningham, D.A. Murphy, P. Holland, A. Moloney
A Romanesque Fresco in Cormac’s Chapel
Gerard Crotty
The Earls of Ormond & Tipperary’s Role in the Governing of Ireland (1603-1641)
Aileen McClintock
Midnight Music on the Tipperary Hills
Linus McGee
An Early Bronze Age Burial at Ballyveelish
Martin G. Doody
The Tipperary Regiment of Militia
Pádraig O Snodaigh
Henry Shea (1767-1830) – A Tipperary Trader in Newfoundland
John Mannion
From Ballingarry to Fredericksburg: David Power Conyngham (1825-1883)
Michael Fitzgerald
The Curious Career of Sub-Inspector Thomas McCarthy
Marcus de Búrca
Tipperary Tokens of the Seventeenth Century
Michael Kenny

South Tipperary on the eve of the Famine
Denis G. Marnane
Tipperary Workhouse Children and the Famine
Anne Lanigan
Memories of the Famine from the Irish Folklore Commission
Introduction
The Famine in the Carrick Area
Isobel Grubb
The Famine from Cashel to Kilfeacle
Edward Delaney
The Famine around Slievenamon
Cáit Ní Mhainnín
Macallaí an Ghorta i ngar don Aonach
Máirtín Ó Corrbuí
An Drochshaol – Léirmheas
Donncha Ó Duibhir
My Part in the War of Independence; Part I
Paddy Kinnane
Class, Community and Conflict: the case of Muintir na Tire Limited
Eoin Devereux
Two Fetes in Edwardian Clonmel
Nellie Beary Ó Cléirigh
North Tipperary in the year of the Fenian Rising; Part I
Clare C. Murphy
The Emigration of the Brownes from Clonoulty to Australia (Part 1)
Richard Reid
Temperance in Tipperary: Father Mathew & Archbishop Slattery, 1839-54
John F. Quinn
Paul Higgins, a man of legend in Killea
William J. Hayes
Borrisoleigh or Two-Mile-Borris?
Hugh Carey
The Medieval Priory of St. Mary’s, Cahir
Brian J. Hodkinson
Clonmel Excavations since 1990
Patrick Holland
Clonmel Excavations – Medieval Town Wall, Dowd’s Lane Site, 1
Hilary Opie
Clonmel Excavations – Medieval Town Wall, Dowd’s Lane Site, 2
Mary Henry
A Medieval Carved Wooden Altar Support from St. Patrick’s Well?
Peter Harbison
Medieval Midden in Mary Street, Clonmel
Dave Pollock
A Recently discovered Barrow Cemetery in Nenagh
Jean Farrelly
A Foundation Deposit in Drangan?
Patrick Holland
Excavations in Dungarvan – a Medieval Town Wall?
Catryn Power
Appendix A – Dungarvan’s Town Walls
William Fraher
Appendix B – Dungarvan, the Pottery
Rose M. Cleary
Dungarvan – a Faunal Report
Margaret McCarthy

TIPPERARY HISTORICAL JOURNAL 1996

The Famine in South Tipperary: Part I
Denis G. Marnane
Memories of the Famine from the Irish Folklore Commission
Introduction
a. The Famine in Ballylooby
Tadhg MacCárthaigh
b. An Ghorta sa Chaisleán Nua agus sa Ghráinseach
Séamus Ó Maolcathaigh
c. The Famine in Lisronagh
Patrick Lyons
The Great Famine in Fethard, 1845-1850
Michael O’Donnell
The Health and Medical Aspects of the Famine in Tipperary
Gordon Smith
Crime in pre-Famine North-West Tipperary
Daniel Grace
The Famine in the Clogheen Area
Edmund O’Riordan
My Part in the War of Independence: Part II
Paddy Kinane
Ballydavid House, Littleton
Patrick Bracken
Clonmel Model School
Michael Ahern
The O’Mearas of Lissinisky
John O’Meara
North Tipperary in the Year of the Fenian Rising: Part II
Clare C. Murphy
The Operations of South Tipperary IRA, 1916-1921
Joost Augusteijn
District Nursing in Ireland, 1815-1974
Maria Luddy
Car Owners in South Tipperary
Editor
18th Century Cashel Rental
Michael O’Dwyer
Clonmel Excavations 3: South-East Corner of Medieval Walled Town – Test Investigations
Orla Scully
Excavations at Cahir Abbey
Dave Pollock

The Impact of the 1848 Insurrection
Padraig Ó Snodaigh
The Irish Confederation in County Tipperary in 1848
William Nolan
The North and Young Ireland
Tomás Ó Fiaich
Patrick O’Donohoe’s Narrative of the 1848 Rising
Gary Owens
The Reluctant Rebel: William Smith O’Brien
Richard Davis
The Famine in South Tipperary – Part Three
Denis G. Marnane
Some Aspects of the Famine in Clonmel
Seán O’Donnell
An Gorta i bParóiste i dTuaisceart Thiobraid Árann
Máirtín Ó Corrbuí
Three Famine Books
Editor
Muintir versus Macra: the Parish Plan for Agriculture, 1947-1957
Eoin Devereux
My Role as an Intelligence Officer with the Third Tipperary Brigade (1919-1921)
Sean Sharkey
Dan Breen looks back 50 years from 1967
Jim Maher
The Burning of Bridget Cleary – Newspapers and Oral Tradition
Angela Bourke
Lighting the Streets of Fethard, 1870-1914
Michael O’Donnell
From Nenagh to Toronto in pre-Famine days
Vivian D. Boulos
The Coming of the Railway to County Tipperary in 1848
Denis G. Marnane
Philip Cunningham: Clonmel’s Insurgent Leader of 1798
Ruan O’Donnell
Irish Veterans in the Invalides: the Tipperary Contingent
Eoghan Ó hAnnracáin
Nomenclature and Religion in North Tipperary
Míchéal Ó Gliasáin
18th Century Decorated Gravestones: the Kilsheelan-Kilmurry Group
Diarmuid O’Keeffe
Amyas Griffith in 18th Century Fethard
Edward J. Law
A German Visitor to Monaincha in 1591
Dagmar Ó Riain-Raedel
Hore Abbey, Cashel: the Archaeological Record
Tracy Collins

TIPPERARY HISTORICAL JOURNAL 1999

The Famine in South Tipperary – Part Four
Denis G. Marnane
North Tipperary Famine Orphans “exported” to Yorkshire
Helen Kennally
Sir William Butler and that Famine Eviction
Martin Ryan
The Obliteration of Townland Boundaries
Michael Hall
Soldiers from Nenagh and District in World War 1
Daniel Grace
The Dean of Cashel and the 1918 General Election
Fr. Patrick Gaynor
The Diary of a Teenage Scully in Paris in 1865
Anthony McCann
The Decline of the Irish Language in North Tipperary
Mícheál Ó Gliasáin
The Franciscans in Clonmel, 1269-1998
Patrick Conlan, OFM
Tipperary Paupers in the Limerick House of Industry, 1777-94
John Logan
Tipperary Men in the Lee & Bulkeley Regiments
Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin
A Portrait of Cornwallis Maude
Patrick Holland
Lámhscríbhinn on 18ú hAois Deag I gCaiseal
Donnchadh Ó Duibhir
Where was Ráith Breasail?
Diarmuid Ó Murchadha
Excavations in the Gatehouse of Nenagh Castle, 1996-97
Brian Hodkinson
Excavation of a section of the Rian Bó Phádraig near Ardfinnan
Mary G. O’Donnell
The Rígdál at Terryglass (737 A.D.)
Póilín Ní Chon Uladh
A Second “Sheela” at Shanrahan
Edmund O’Riordan
Readers Survey Findings – Part 2
Editor
Obituary (Sean Guilfoyle)
Michael Collins
Tipperary Historical Journal: 10-Year Index, 1988-1997
Patrick M. Nolan

TIPPERARY HISTORICAL JOURNAL 2000 [Out-Of-Print]

P.J. Meghen And South Tipperary County Council (1934-1942)
Seán Gallagher
An Paorach, Múinteoir Taistil, In Aonach Urmhumhan (1906-1910)
Cáit Ní Laohóg
Marlfield’s Coloured Embroidery Industry And Lady Aberdeen
Nellie Beary-Ó Cléirigh
My Years In The National Movement Before 1916
Eamon Ó Duibhir
Two War Memorials At Kickham Barracks, Clonmel
Áine Máire Chadwick
Charles Kickham – Current Critical Attitudes
Proinsias Ó Drisceoil
Cahir Marine In American Civil War
Edward J. Shaughnessy
The Nineteenth Century Butter Markets Of South Tipperary
William Jenkins
John Blake Dillon And The ’48 Rising
Brendan Ó Cathaoir
Presbyterianism In The Fethard Area (1690-1919)
David Butler
The Famine In South Tipperary – Part Five
Denis G. Marnane
“Woodcock” Carden – A Balanced Account
Arthur Carden
Clonmel’s Pay Schools – “Urban Hedge Schools”
Michael Ahern
Parliamentary Representation For County Tipperary, 1560-1800
Michael O’Donnell
The Theft Of The Relic Of Holy Cross Abbey
Ignatius Fennessy, O.F.M.
Graystown – A Later Medieval Settlement Near Fethard
Richard Clutterbuck
A Summary Of Investigations By The Lisheen Archaeological Project
John Ó Neill
New Archaeological Finds At Killea Graveyard
Richard O’Brien

TIPPERARY HISTORICAL JOURNAL 2001

Tipperary town one hundred years ago: the evidence of the 1901 Census
Denis G Marnane
Tipperarymen in Spain (1936 – 1937)
Pat Lonergan
The Women’s History Project: some sources from the history of Tipperary
Maria Luddy
Hurling in Mid Tipperary pre-1884
Liam Ó’Donnchú
The Fight to save Séan Allen
Marcus Bourke
John Davis White’s Sixty Years in Cashel
Denis G. Marnane
Alice O’Sullivan, Clonmel missionary and martyr (1836 – 1870)
Áine M. Chadwick
Black (and White) ’47
Edmund O’Riordan
Parliamentary Representation for County Tipperary, 1560 – 1800 (Part 2)
Michael O’Donnell
“I met with Adam Chidle”: the emigration of the Brownes from Clonoulty to Australia (1857)
Richard Reid
Presbyterianism in the Fethard area (1690 – 1919) Part 11
David Butler
“The Battle of the Breeches”: the Nenagh Mutiny, July 1856
David Murphy
The Military History Bureau – a list of Tipperary names
Editor
The two Sir George Hamilton’s and their connections with the castles of Roscrea and Nenagh
Conleth Manning
Instruments of the Passion on the gravestones of South Tipperary
Diarmuid O’Keeffe
Nenagh by-pass excavations, 1998 – 1999
Richard O’Brien
Trial excavations at Ballybrado House, Cahir
Nyree Finlay & Peter Woodman
Books Section
Obituary (Col. S.J. Watson)
Margaret Rossiter

Properties in Carrick-on-Suir Granted to the Duke of Ormond in 1668
Conleth Manning
Status and Structure: Social Organisation in Early 17th century Clonmel
Brid McGrath
Parliamentary Representation for County Tipperary, 1560-1800
Michael O’Donnell
The Story of a Tipperary Peninsular Soldier
Michael Hall
Patrick Leahy’s Maps of the Barony of Slieveardagh 1818 And of the Killenaule Coal District 1824
Arnold Horner
Women and Officialdom in Clonmel Workhouse November 1848 – November 1853
Frances Garry Marnane
A Forgotten Revolution: the 1883 Labourers Act in County Tipperary (Part Two)
Denis G. Marnane
Denis Dowling Mulcahy: The Artful Dollier
Bernardine Ruddy
The I.R.B., Labour and Factional Politics; Some Tipperary Facets of the 1890s
Padraig G. Lane
Thurles 1755-1953: An Introduction to the Map Evidence of Town Origin
Larry O’Sullivan
The First Celtic Tiger
Kevin Higgins
August 1914: Tipperary and the First World War
John Dennehy
The War of Independence in Tipperary Town and District; Part One: Chronology
Denis G. Marnane
Six Letters (1940-1942) Written by George Plant (1904-1942)
Communicated by W. J. Mc Cormack
Teorainneacha, Athanna agus Iomain
Art O Maolfabhail
‘Who’s Ever Goin’ to Say it Again’: Anglo-Irish Words and Phrases
(Collected from the Speech of John O’Driscoll, Ballinura, Faugheen,
Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary, 1998-2007)
Proinsias O Drisceoil

TIPPERARY HISTORICAL JOURNAL 2009

Late Medieval to Early Modern Building at No. 1 Canopy Street & No. 9 Bank Place, Cashel
Joanne Hughes & Jean Farrelly
A Baluster-headed ringed pin from Richmond, Nenagh
Richard O’Brien
The O’Glissane [Gleeson] Sept of Silvermines
Damian J. Gleeson
The Threatening Notice in Pre Famine County Tipperary
Daniel Grace
Fugitives and Flying Columns: The Aftermath of the Fenian Rising in County Tipperary
Noel Delahunty
Saving The Pope: Tipperary’s Contribution to the “Irish Brigade” in 1860
Denis G. Marnane
Saving The Pope: John Augustus O’Shea’s Account of Being With the Irish Brigade in 1860
Denis G. Marnane
Sketches of the Pope’s Irish Brigade: From the Portfolio of a Sub-Officer
Tipperary Hurlers, 1895-1900: A Socio-Economic Profile
Tom Hunt
In Florence Nightingale’s Footsteps: A Biography of Mary O’Connell Bianconi with particular reference to her Nursing Career
Alice McDermott
“Supernatural Manifestations, Accompanied by Cures”: The Phenomenon of the ‘Templemore Miracles’ 1920
John Reynolds
The Burning of Portland House, May 1938
Seamus King
John O’Leary: A Study in Irish Separatism [Reprint 2009]
Denis G. Marnane

TIPPERARY HISTORICAL JOURNAL 2010

Thomas Walsh: Cashel’s Forgotten Archbishop
Seán Ua Cearnaigh
Tres Bian: Charles Bianconi: Portrait of a Nineteenth Century (Naturalised) Irish Self-Made Man
Alice McDermott
The Last Woman Hanged in County Tipperary
Daniel Grace
Saving the Pope: Tipperary’s Contribution to the “Irish Brigade” in 1860 – Part Two
Denis G. Marnane
The Life of O’Reilly: An Account of the Life and Times of the Climber Anthony Adams Reilly
Kevin Higgins
Treacys of Soloheadbeg – Family, Land and Murder: A Very Irish Tragedy
Denis G. Marnane
Touring Theatre Companies in Tipperary during the Emergency (1935-1945)
Nancy Leahy
Autographs – A Civil War Memoir
Neil Sharkey
An Account from the Bureau of Military History
Ned O’Leary’s account of the War of Independence in North Tipperary
Obituary – Marcus Bourke 1927-2010
Patrick CarthageTIPPERARY HISTORICAL JOURNAL 2011

Bagpuss of Cashel – The Tale of a Musical Cat
Joanne Hughes
The Late Medieval Surburban Church of St. Nicholas’, Clonmel
Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Client/Patron Relationship in Munster, Sir William St. Leger and Murrough O’Brien 6th Baron of Inchiquin 1632-1640
Leon O’Doherty
The Cholera Outbreak of 1832-33 in County Tipperary
Daniel Grace
The Cahir Estate in the 19th & 20th Centuries
Very Revd. Robert McCarthy
The 1918 Influenza Outbreak in Clonmel: Borstal, Community and Local Government Responses
Conor Reidy
The Road to Soloheadbeg
Denis G. Marnane
My First Day in the Dáil
Seán Treacy
Business Records in Counties Tipperary, Clare, Limerick, Kerry, Cork, and Waterford
Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh and Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh
Múineadh na Staire sa Pharóiste Dúchais
Liam Prút
Máirtín Ó Corrbui: Sárúdar Gaeilge
Seán Ua Cearnaig

New evidence for the form and early development of the medieval town of Cashel from recent excavation
Rubicon Heritage Services Ltd.
The M7 motorway historical landscape: studies in the history of Ikerrin and Elyocarroll
Paul MacCotter
Royal Constables of Cashel Castle, Co. Tipperary
Niall O’Brien
Vallancey’s military surveys of 1776-1777 & 1796 as relating to County Tipperary and its immediate environs
Edward J. Law
An Hedge School Education: How Thomas Guerin of Aherlow learned maths
Denis G. Marnane
Kendal E. O’Brien: Fenian, Mid Tipperary’s M.P. and the Voice of Rural Labour, 1849 – 1909
Pádraig G. Lane
A Tipperary emigrant’s manuscript
Pádraig Ó Macháin
The War of Independence in Tipperary Town and District – Part 3: “A Danger to the Community”: the socio-economic background of the Tipperary Town Volunteers
Denis G. Marnane
Shootout at Dagg’s Farm
Michael O’Donnell
Laochra Chogadh na Saoirse í dTiobraid Árann agus an Ghaeilge
Seán Ó Cearnaigh
William George Dowsley (1871 – 1947)
Patricia F. d’A. Theron and William M. Murphy
Homicide in Pre-Famine County Tipperary
Daniel Grace
Caisleán Laighnigh: Gnéithe de Logainmneacha, Dinnseanchas agus Oidhreacht Sheandálaíochta an Leath-Pharóiste agus na Dúiche Máguaird
Oilibhéar Ó Braonáin

TIPPERARY HISTORICAL JOURNAL 2014

The Use of Masons Templates on some Early Christian Sculpture from Lorrha, Co. Tipperary and Tisaran Co. Westmeath
Jim Higgins
MISCELLANEA The Battle of Clontarf and Co. Tipperary – 1,000 years on
Donal J. O’Regan
The O’Fogartys of Inch in the Elizabethan Era
John L. Fogarty
Cottiers on an 18th Century Tipperary Estate
Paddy Ryan
Richard Dalton Williams – Shamrock of The Nation
Tim Boland
Butter Markets in Tipperary Town in the mid – 1800’s
Liam Downey
The Foundation of the Gaelic Athletic Association – A Local perspective
J.M. Tobin
Death of a Tipperary Blueshirt
Daniel Grace
Family History as Microhistory: Richard Lahert 1849 – 1921
Prionsias Ó Drisceoil
Pobal ar scáth a chéile trí shúile an bhéaloidis
Nuala Power
An exploration of domestic and industrial turf cutting in Castleconnell, Co. Limerick and Newport, Co. Tipperary
John A. Phayer
It’s a Long Way to Tipperary: a Military Barracks, a Song and a World War, Part one
Denis G. Marnane
It’s a Long Way to Tipperary: a Military Barracks, a Song and a World War, Part two
Denis G. Marnane
Clonmel, Tipperary and the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment, August 1914
Ruairí R. Walsh
The Undone Years: An Account of the Hackett Siblings from Clonmel who laid down their lives for the Great War Effort
Alice McDermott

TIPPERARY HISTORICAL JOURNAL 2015

A Romanesque Boss and a Loaf of Bread at Monainchaby Jim Higgins
A ‘Kerin’ Monument in Kilcooly Abbey and its iconographical contextby Paul Cockerham
The Parishes of Ardfinnan and Tubridby Robert MacCarthy‘Old skills, brilliant minds, future wisdom’ An investigation of traditional boat-building and net-fishing practices of Limerick Cityby John A. Phayer
Three Butler Anniversariesby Donal J. O’Regan
Protestant Provincial Survival or Confederate Control: Inchiquin and the Battle of Liscarroll 1642by Leon O’Doherty
“Adorning with a little feather”: some aspects of the peerage in County Tipperary. Part Oneby Denis G. Marnane
Thomas Davis and Tipperaryby Tim Boland
Fenian experiences in Tipperary in 1866-67by Mark O’Keeffe
From Workhouse to Westminster The Career of Jack Jones of Nenagh, Co. Tipperaryby Daniel Grace
“Cuid mhaith fearr ná Gaedhig na Cúise”le Liam Mac Peaircín
An Ghaeilge faoi chló is faoi chaibidil sa naoú céad déag: Bláithfhleasg na Milseánle Síle Ní Mhurchú
Making a Show of us Speaking Irish: Séamas Ó Maolchathaigh and An Gleann agus a Raibh Annle Proinsias Ó Drisceoil
“It’s a Long Way to Tipperary”: A Military Barracks, a Song and a World War. Part Three: Training the 49th Brigade, 1914-15by Denis G. Marnane
Obituary – John Ryan, Dr Carmel Farrelly